Limebank Station: Passenger pick-up and drop-off area relocation: December 12 2025 -
At 10:00 am on Thursday, December 18, Town Square Road and the connector road at Limebank Station will re-open to general traffic. As a result, the temporarily-relocated passenger pick-up and drop-off zone will be moved back to its original location, on the north side of Limebank Station.
Customers are reminded to use the designated pedestrian crossing zones when travelling between the O-Train station and the passenger pick-up and drop-off area.
Routes 70, 73, 74, 99, 110, 198, 283, 299 will continue to follow a detour by entering and exiting Limebank Station via Limebank Road.
Detour routing
99 Limebank: From Limebank, right onto Limebank Station Bus Only Roadway, Loop around bus loop, right onto Connector Roadway, continue regular route (and regular service stops within Limebank Station).
99 Barrhaven Centre: From Limebank Station, loop around bus loop, right onto Connector Roadway, left onto Limebank, continue regular route.
110 Limebank: From Earl Armstrong, right onto Limebank, right onto Limebank Station Bus Only Roadway, Loop around bus loop, right onto Connector Roadway, continue regular route (and regular service stops within Limebank Station).
110 Innovation: No detour required.
70, 73, 74, 198, 283, 299 Limebank: From Earl Armstrong, right onto Limebank, right onto Limebank Station Bus Only Roadway, Loop around bus loop, right onto Connector Roadway, continue regular route (and regular service stops within Limebank Station).
70, 73, 74, 198, 283, 299 Outbound trips: From Limebank Station, loop around bus loop, right onto Connector Roadway, left onto Limebank, left onto Earl Armstrong, continue regular route.
Maps (effective December 18)+1 more notice
No 70 trips cancelled now · 5 did not run in NovemberCancellations →
Previous measure: 71.6% of arrivals were within five minutes of the timetable (150,278 arrivals over 27 days). The report card below uses the newer one-minute-early to five-minutes-late measure when it has readings.
70
Route 70: Fallowfield ⇄ Limebank & CFIA ~ ACIA
Every 15 to 30 min
Toward Fallowfield4 buses · boards at · under each stop: the next bus (live dot = live, grey = sched.)
Next: 16.5 min after the pairNext: 17.6 min after the pairNext: 13.6 min after the pair70707070
Trips in the published timetable marked cancelled without qualifying later matching vehicle observations in our archive. This does not prove the trip did not operate. Not counted: 6 trips with qualifying later matching vehicle observations. Trips with any notice: 12.
Trips needing investigation
9
9 of 623 trips with a usable feed window (1.4%) had no matching position.
These counts may overlap; do not add them. A missing position confirms neither cancellation nor a no-show.
614 with position · 9 to investigate · 0 excluded · 623 scheduled trips
Current feed. No explicit notice for this route in the current feed; this does not guarantee service. Observed: Nov 4, 2026, 8:28 a.m..
Coverage, exclusions and sources
0 of 12 endpoint departures scheduled in the next four hours carried an explicit cancellation at the last check.
0 scheduled trips were excluded from the position check for feed or identity gaps.
Published position coverage: 614 / 623 (98.6%). This is not a delivered-service rate. 7 service days in this source.
Timetables retained before the service day: 7 / 7 requested days · 0 missing days.
Historical calculation: Nov 4, 2026, 6:19 a.m.
Method: explicit provider notices, archived trip windows and retained timetables. Predictions and positions alone do not prove that a bus ran or was missed.
What does the evidence show?
Predictions against the timetable
71.6%
of eligible provider predictions were within five minutes of the timetable.
Within five minutesOutside
Predictions in the source
150,278
Weekdays with evidence
19
Evidence window
Oct 6, 2026 – Nov 3, 2026
The hours we have evidence for
4 a.m.84% · 822 predictions · 14 days
5 a.m.88% · 2,161 predictions · 14 days
6 a.m.87% · 4,500 predictions · 14 days
7 a.m.87% · 6,287 predictions · 14 days
8 a.m.76% · 5,640 predictions · 14 days
9 a.m.81% · 3,920 predictions · 14 days
10 a.m.86% · 3,527 predictions · 14 days
11 a.m.75% · 3,740 predictions · 14 days
12 p.m.82% · 3,775 predictions · 14 days
1 p.m.76% · 3,733 predictions · 14 days
2 p.m.70% · 3,732 predictions · 14 days
3 p.m.52% · 4,150 predictions · 14 days
4 p.m.60% · 6,002 predictions · 14 days
5 p.m.58% · 6,265 predictions · 14 days
6 p.m.59% · 5,971 predictions · 14 days
7 p.m.78% · 4,533 predictions · 14 days
8 p.m.73% · 3,616 predictions · 14 days
9 p.m.66% · 3,431 predictions · 14 days
10 p.m.59% · 2,106 predictions · 14 days
11 p.m.84% · 1,455 predictions · 14 days
Share of predictions within five minutes of the timetable. Only eligible hours are shown; an absent hour does not mean zero.
These are provider predictions, not independently measured arrivals. Missing evidence is not counted as on-time service.
Calculated: Nov 4, 2026
2 partial-capture days not counted.
What about time of day?
20 hourly cohorts meet the thresholds of 30 predictions and 5 service days. Hourly thresholds are assessed separately from the route-wide aggregate.
Improvement or decline requires comparable periods. This single result cannot establish a trend.
Last 28 days, October 7, 2026 to November 3, 2026: 26 days counted.
2 days left out because the live feed was only partly recorded or its trip numbers did not match the timetable: October 8, 2026, October 15, 2026.
Early morning (4 to 6 a.m.)2%
Morning rush (6 to 9 a.m.)3%
Midday (9 a.m. to 3 p.m.)1%
Afternoon rush (3 to 6 p.m.)5%
Evening (6 to 10 p.m.)2%
Night (10 p.m. to 4 a.m.)1%
Values and interpretation
2% of back-to-back buses on this route arrived bunched together: 2,976 of 120,644 pairs checked at stops in the last 28 days. When buses bunch, the wait after them is usually longer.
2% of pairs (2,149) had a long gap: more than 1.75 times the planned wait between them.
Road work and event road closures the City of Ottawa has published, measured as near this route’s path. Near is not proof that the bus is detoured: check the operator’s own alerts for that.
The City’s road work list could not be read right now.
A route counts as near when its timetable path passes within 40 m of the City’s mapped closure; a stop counts when it is within 75 m.
Source: City of Ottawa traffic events (road work and closures). Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence, City of Ottawa. The City says this list is best effort and may be incomplete. City of Ottawa traffic map ↗
20 scheduled trips with counted cancellation notices from Wed, Oct 7 to Tue, Nov 3.
Not counted: 24 trips with qualifying later matching vehicle observations and 0 for trips not in that day’s timetable.
Hours with the most cancellations: 5 p.m. (7), 4 p.m. (4), 3 p.m. (3)
Latest cancelled trips
Sun, Nov 1, scheduled 19:52
Thu, Oct 29, scheduled 15:55
Thu, Oct 29, scheduled 15:40
Wed, Oct 28, scheduled 17:10
Wed, Oct 28, scheduled 16:45
OC Transpo gives no reason for single trips, so none is shown.
Did not come (no bus seen, no notice), last 7 days: 5 of 623 trips we could check.
Open the dated prediction analysis
Verdict
What this route needs
Median provider predictions are 3.6 to 3.9 min later than the timetable in 6 hours of the day.
Predictions near the start are about 2.9 min later than the timetable, with a similar difference near the end. This does not establish the cause.
15:00 has 52% of predictions within five minutes of the timetable, against 76% the rest of the day.
Next investigation: test terminal recovery and the preceding trip against operational records. Predictions alone do not establish the cause.
Final provider predictions within five minutes of the timetable, by hour, last 14 days, 22 hours with samples
00:00: not enough data00
01:00: not enough data01
02:00: not enough data02
03:00: not enough data03
04:00: 83.7% of final predictions within five minutes of the timetable, 822 predictions, typically 1.5 min late04
05:00: 88.4% of final predictions within five minutes of the timetable, 2,161 predictions, typically 0.3 min late05
06:00: 87.2% of final predictions within five minutes of the timetable, 4,500 predictions, typically 1.1 min late06
07:00: 87.4% of final predictions within five minutes of the timetable, 6,287 predictions, typically 1 min late07
08:00: 75.7% of final predictions within five minutes of the timetable, 5,640 predictions, typically 1.8 min late08
09:00: 81.2% of final predictions within five minutes of the timetable, 3,920 predictions, typically 1.9 min late09
10:00: 85.7% of final predictions within five minutes of the timetable, 3,527 predictions, typically 1.5 min late10
11:00: 75.2% of final predictions within five minutes of the timetable, 3,740 predictions, typically 1.7 min late11
12:00: 82.2% of final predictions within five minutes of the timetable, 3,775 predictions, typically 1.6 min late12
13:00: 76.3% of final predictions within five minutes of the timetable, 3,733 predictions, typically 2.3 min late13
14:00: 70% of final predictions within five minutes of the timetable, 3,732 predictions, typically 2.3 min late14
15:00: 51.6% of final predictions within five minutes of the timetable, 4,150 predictions, typically 4.8 min late15
16:00: 59.6% of final predictions within five minutes of the timetable, 6,002 predictions, typically 4 min late16
17:00: 58% of final predictions within five minutes of the timetable, 6,265 predictions, typically 3.7 min late17
18:00: 58.6% of final predictions within five minutes of the timetable, 5,971 predictions, typically 3.9 min late18
19:00: 78.2% of final predictions within five minutes of the timetable, 4,533 predictions, typically 2.3 min late19
20:00: 72.9% of final predictions within five minutes of the timetable, 3,616 predictions, typically 2.7 min late20
21:00: 66.2% of final predictions within five minutes of the timetable, 3,431 predictions, typically 3.3 min late21
22:00: 58.8% of final predictions within five minutes of the timetable, 2,106 predictions, typically 3.8 min late22
23:00: 83.8% of final predictions within five minutes of the timetable, 1,455 predictions, typically 1.9 min late23
90% or more of predictions within five minutes
80 to 90% of predictions within five minutes
under 80% of predictions within five minutes
not enough data
Findings
What
When
Measured
Scenario or next investigation
Problem!Predictions later than timetable
15:00 to 19:00 · 21:00 to 23:00
3.9 min late · 3.6 min late
Recovery time at the terminal
Problem!One hour has a lower prediction match
15:00
52%
Operations, not the timetable
Measurements
Predictions later than timetable · 15:00 to 19:00
Measured arrivals 22,388
Hours affected 4
Spread 13.7 min
Median delay 3.9 min
Suggested running time change 3.9 min
Predictions later than timetable · 21:00 to 23:00
Measured arrivals 5,537
Hours affected 2
Spread 10.6 min
Median delay 3.6 min
Suggested running time change 3.6 min
One hour has a lower prediction match · 15:00
Hour 15:00
On time 51.6%
Measured arrivals 4,150
Shortfall 24.4 pts
Route median on time 76%
15:00 57 → to 6115:00 59 → to 6316:00 49 → to 5316:00 59 → to 6317:00 58 → to 6217:00 59 → to 6318:00 55 → to 5918:00 57 → to 6121:00 49 → to 5321:00 51 → to 5522:00 49 → to 5322:00 52 → to 56
Open history, reliability and route analysis
Route check
How route 70 has been running
A short summary of what we know. We say so when we cannot answer a question.
Bottom line
Provider predictions often differed from the timetable; actual arrivals were not independently measured.
Based on 150,278 eligible provider predictions over 27 measured days, from Oct 6, 2026 to Nov 3, 2026.
Updated Nov 4, 2026, 7:32 a.m.
Where and when did predictions differ repeatedly?
These are repeated prediction-to-timetable differences, not independently measured service failures. They use the same eligible predictions as the result above, but group by stop rather than hour, so the lists need not match line for line.
3 p.m.–4 p.m.: 48 in 100 eligible predictions differed from the timetable by more than 5 minutes (4,150 predictions over 14 days).
5 p.m.–6 p.m.: 42 in 100 eligible predictions differed from the timetable by more than 5 minutes (6,265 predictions over 14 days).
6 p.m.–7 p.m.: 41 in 100 eligible predictions differed from the timetable by more than 5 minutes (5,971 predictions over 14 days).
10 p.m.–11 p.m.: 41 in 100 eligible predictions differed from the timetable by more than 5 minutes (2,106 predictions over 14 days).
2 current notices affect this route
• Limebank Station: Passenger pick-up and drop-off area relocation
• Detour: Routes entering and exiting Limebank Station
42 in 100 eligible predictions differed from the timetable by more than 5 minutes (1,269 predictions over 30 days).
Open this stop
These are route-specific provider predictions compared with the timetable. They identify repeated prediction differences at a place and time, not measured arrivals or their cause.
Check every trip and date
Open a time period to see each service day, scheduled trip, feed gap, observed public vehicle ID, and the exact counts behind this summary.
What riders want to know
Is any trip cancelled right now?
0 of 12Checks trips starting at route endpoints in the next 4 hours. This is not a historical cancellation rate.
Possible no-shows after checking feed gaps?
9 of 623 checked trips need a closer look9 of 623 trips with enough public-feed evidence had no matching position over 7 days. 0 of 623 scheduled trips were excluded because the feed record was incomplete. These are cases to investigate, not confirmed no-shows.
How did provider predictions differ from the timetable?
7.2 min average predicted wait0.7 min beyond the scheduled wait, based on 269 eligible predictions at 13 high-frequency stops over 11 days.
Schedule change check
Published schedule: before and after
This compares the current retained official schedule with the prior retained version. Schedule changes are facts about what was planned; they do not prove that a trip ran.
Current published schedule began October 30, 2026
Selected service day from each published schedule
We check the first Monday after the new schedule began and the Monday one week earlier. Every figure comes from the retained official GTFS versions named below.
At least one selected date uses added or removed calendar-date service. Treat this as holiday or special-service context, not ordinary weekday growth.
We will compare settled arrivals for the 14 days before and after the change. We publish the comparison only after both sides have at least 7 service days and 200 arrivals.
Still collecting: before has 79,000 arrivals over 14 days; after has 27,511 arrivals over 5 days. No improvement or decline is claimed yet.
Checksums let anyone verify which retained timetable produced the counts. A changed count does not identify a cause, cancellation, operator decision, or passenger impact.
How this route is judged: Regular all-stop route
We compare the last eligible provider prediction for each scheduled arrival with the official schedule. These are not independently measured arrivals. A result needs at least 200 eligible predictions. Within 5 minutes is the rider-facing target used here.
What this data cannot prove
The public feed does not provide dependable passenger counts or passed-up-rider events. A missing position does not by itself prove a cancellation, no-show, short turn or cause.
See the definitions, thresholds and evidence order
Official current feed: explicit cancellations, skipped stops and active notices.
Matched observations: vehicle positions and settled predictions tied to the official schedule.
Official timetable: what was planned, kept separate from what was observed.
Rider and operator reports: leads about routes, times and places to investigate, not numeric proof by themselves.
Provisional results, published evidence
How did predictions compare with the timetable?
Each hour compares the last eligible provider prediction for a scheduled arrival with the timetable. “Within 5 minutes” describes that prediction difference, not a measured arrival or proof that a bus ran.
Evidence window: October 6, 2026 to November 3, 2026
6 hourly block(s) are below 70% across at least three service days: a repeated pattern, not one bad day.
Scheduled bus, but not observed in realtime
614 / 623 scheduled trips published at least one position across 1 service days (98.6%).
04:002 / 18 trips without a position88.9%
15:002 / 38 trips without a position94.7%
17:002 / 48 trips without a position95.8%
13:001 / 28 trips without a position96.4%
19:001 / 28 trips without a position96.4%
18:001 / 38 trips without a position97.4%
This is not a confirmed no-show. A missing position can mean a cancelled or missed bus, but it can also mean an unassigned trip ID or an operator-feed gap. Otranspo publishes the gap because it matters to riders while keeping the conclusion honest.
Prediction check: the last eligible provider prediction no earlier than ten minutes before the scheduled arrival, counted once per trip, stop and scheduled Toronto calendar date. It is compared with the timetable, not an independently measured arrival. Trip-position check: the timetable kept before each service day, matched to recorded positions. Exact IDs are preferred; an OC timetable suffix is matched only to one trip on the same route and date with an overlapping time window. Missing timetables, ambiguous matches and feed gaps stay labelled; they are not confirmed no-shows. Sources and limitations.
Dated service
Trips scheduled that day
The timetable, notices and what the live feed says are shown apart. Seeing a bus on the map does not prove you can board it.
November 3, 2026 · 98 trips in the retained timetable · retained notices; capture coverage unverified
In short: 98 with a matched position · 0 with no matching position (to investigate) · 0 with an unknown outcome.
04:39– 05:24
Trip 10014030Vehicle position matchedFirst / last feed position: 4:20 a.m. EST / 5:25 a.m. EST; not actual start or end times.
04:41– 04:51
Trip 23449030Vehicle position matchedFirst / last feed position: 4:41 a.m. EST / 4:59 a.m. EST; not actual start or end times.
05:00– 05:52
Trip 33880030Vehicle position matchedFirst / last feed position: 4:22 a.m. EST / 5:57 a.m. EST; not actual start or end times.
05:11– 05:21
Trip 19652030Vehicle position matchedFirst / last feed position: 4:52 a.m. EST / 5:24 a.m. EST; not actual start or end times.
05:27– 06:17
Trip 27697030Vehicle position matchedFirst / last feed position: 5:20 a.m. EST / 6:22 a.m. EST; not actual start or end times.
06:00– 06:52
Trip 7203030Vehicle position matchedFirst / last feed position: 5:40 a.m. EST / 6:54 a.m. EST; not actual start or end times.
06:03– 06:53
Trip 16192030Vehicle position matchedFirst / last feed position: 5:58 a.m. EST / 6:55 a.m. EST; not actual start or end times.
06:15– 07:09
Trip 11066030Vehicle position matchedFirst / last feed position: 6:10 a.m. EST / 7:44 a.m. EST; not actual start or end times.
06:15– 07:07
Trip 27315030Vehicle position matchedFirst / last feed position: 5:56 a.m. EST / 7:08 a.m. EST; not actual start or end times.
06:28– 07:20
Trip 1349030Vehicle position matchedFirst / last feed position: 6:23 a.m. EST / 7:21 a.m. EST; not actual start or end times.
06:29– 07:24
Trip 11574030Vehicle position matchedFirst / last feed position: 6:14 a.m. EST / 7:34 a.m. EST; not actual start or end times.
06:43– 07:41
Trip 36738030Vehicle position matchedFirst / last feed position: 6:24 a.m. EST / 7:49 a.m. EST; not actual start or end times.